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Breaking News/Newswires
* "Human Bombs" on India-Bangladesh border tops lists (IANS): Indian border officials have asked Bangladesh to crack down on terrorist training camps where "human bombs" are reportedly preparing for attacks in this country to disrupt Independence Day celebrations on August 15. Officials of India's Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) are currently meeting in the northern West Bengal town of Siliguri to discuss ways of tightening vigil along the porous frontier. "Talks with Bangladesh are concentrating on terrorist camps in that country and the threat of human bombs," a top BSF source said here. The Indians strongly advocated an immediate crackdown on the terrorist camps in Bangladesh following intelligence reports that at least 100 "human bombs" are ready to enter this country and launch attacks in the run-up to the August 15 independence celebrations. http://in.news.yahoo.com/020807/43/1teko.html
* India and the next Gulf War (The Hindu): The question is no longer whether Washington would act against Baghdad in the coming weeks and months. The current debate in the United States is about when and how to intervene in Iraq to oust the regime of Saddam Hussein. As the momentum builds up towards the third war in the Persian Gulf in a decade and a half, India must quickly gear for the extraordinary consequences that could flow from it. Otherwise, India might find itself as terribly paralysed as it was during the Second Gulf War of 1990-91. New Delhi needs to be better prepared this time for the fall-out ‹ from the likely sharp rise in oil prices to ensuring the safety of its expatriate communities in the Gulf. Even more significantly, the geopolitics of the region will not remain the same after the next Gulf War. In responding to the latest crisis in the Gulf, India will have to take into account issues relating to the legality of the U.S. intervention, level and nature of international and regional support, operational considerations of the American use of force, and the future orientation of the Iraqi state. http://in.news.yahoo.com/020806/16/1tbhg.html
* India opposes US plans to attack Iraq (IANS): India Tuesday reiterated its opposition to any move by the United States and its allies to attack Iraq and cautioned that this would be counter-productive. Any attack on Iraq to change the leadership in Baghdad would undermine the people's right to choose their own government, external affairs ministry spokeswoman Nirupama Rao said. "It is the right of the (Iraqi) people to choose their own government and it (attack) will undermine the territorial integrity of Iraq," she said. "India has consistently opposed this. It will be counter-productive," she added. India and Iraq have been moving towards reviving their economic and commercial ties disrupted by the Gulf War and the U.N. sanctions against Baghdad. http://in.news.yahoo.com/020806/43/1tadu.html
--- South Asian News, August 07, 2002 ---
Pakistani authorities have accelerated efforts to curb terrorist money transfers. Three suspected militants who carried out the attack on a Christian missionary school near Pakistan's hill resort of Murree blew themselves up in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after they were confronted at a checkpoint. Meanwhile, India mounts pressure on Pakistan for not taking action against Islamic seperatists after the pilgrim massacre, which has further damaged the ties between the two nations. Elsewhere in Indian Kashmir, the chief minister calls for destruction of rebel camps in Pakistan. Few kinkish issues in the parliaments of Sri Lanka and Nepal. The editorial section deals with how effective was Powell's visit to India and Pakistan, the concept of Jehad in a terrorist's world and some lessons fron Sri Lanka. In the business section, we have a Pakistani Commerce Minister anticipating trade talks with the US and a Californian-based computer companyng its operations in India.
Top Stories
* Pakistan steps up effort to curb terrorist money transfers (Wall Street Journal)
* Former LAPD deputy chief hired to train border force in Pakistan (SF Gate) Fresno Bee)
* India lists steps for Pakistan on Kashmir violence (NY Times)
* Students were likely targets of school raid (Washington Post) (Miami Herald) (Las Vegas Sun)
* Three suspects blow themselves up in Pakistan (Wall Street Journal) (Houston Chronicle) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Boston Globe) (Washington Times)
* Pakistani police examining body (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (SF Gate) (Herald Sun)
* Christians in South Pakistan seek more security after attack (Wall Street Journal)
* New killings feed Kashmir angst (Wall Street Journal) (Chicago Tribune)
* Hindu groups call general strike in Kashmir to protest attack (Wall Street Journal) (NY Times) (LA Times) (Washington Post) (SF Gate)
* Kashmir chief minister: Destroy rebel camps in Pakistan (NY Times)
* Pakistan election chief assures EU team of fair elections (Wall Street Journal)
* Australian Foreign Minister says Australians should leave Pakistan (Wall Street Journal)
* Body of slain Wall Street Journal correspondent transferred to Karachi airport for flight to US (Boston.com)
* Sri Lanka's main opposition party pledges to unseat government (Wall Street Journal)
* Nepal High Court rejects petition to reinstate parliament (Wall Street Journal)
Editorial/Op-Ed
* Colin Powell: leading without being bossy (Seattle Times)
* Don't back down: Pakistan government must control extremism (Dallas Morning News)
* They war on children, and call it holy (NY Post)
* I'd like some pretzels, and this man arrested (SF Gate)
* Lessons from Sri Lanka (NY Times)
Business/Technology
* Pakistani Commerce Minister: Fresh trade talks with US in August or September (Wall Street Journal)
* Computer Associates Unit launches operations in India (Wall Street Journal)
Top Stories
* Pakistan steps up effort to curb terrorist money transfers
August 06, Islamabad -- With help from U.S. law enforcement, Pakistani authorities have quietly accelerated efforts to curb terrorist money transfers, but with limited success, banking sources and officials said Tuesday. New investigations began in June, when police found thousands of U.S. dollars in cash in the Karachi home of an Arab suspected of al-Qaida links, an Interior Ministry official said on condition of anonymity. He wouldn't identify the Arab, but said investigators have since broadened their search into suspicious banking transactions made in Pakistan before and after the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. Some people have been questioned regarding the transactions, the official said. However, no arrests have been announced.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020806_008608,00.html
* Former LAPD deputy chief hired to train border force in Pakistan
Los Angeles -- A former deputy police chief who was placed on probation for illegally possessing confidential documents after he retired has been tapped to train a border security force in Pakistan. The U.S. Justice Department has hired Daniel Sullivan to direct the $1.3 million Border Security and Police Modernization Project, which aims to help Pakistan's national police secure its borders.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/07/state0503EDT0048.DTL
http://www.fresnobee.com/state_wire/story/3884141p-4909916c.html
* India lists steps for Pakistan on Kashmir violence
New Delhi -- India listed on Tuesday a series of steps it said it expected Pakistan to take against Kashmiri separatists, including ordering militants inside Indian Kashmir to stop violence, before the neighbors could resume talks. The demand came after a fresh guerrilla attack in Jammu and Kashmir killed nine Hindu pilgrims in the disputed region, which is at the heart of a seven-month military stand-off between the nuclear-capable neighbors.
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-southasia-india-pakistan.html
* Students were likely targets of school raid; weapons recovered at school
August 06, Islamabad -- Police recovered grenades, knives and ammunition abandoned by four masked gunmen who killed six Pakistanis at a school for children of foreign Christian missionaries, officials said Tuesday. The discovery indicated the attackers may have planned to kill students at the Murree Christian School or take them hostage had they not been driven off Monday by campus security guards.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug6.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug6.html
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2002/08/07/news/world/3812801.htm
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2002/aug/06/080606259.html
* Three suspects blow themselves up in Pakistan
August 06, Islamabad -- Three men who said they had been involved in an attack on a missionary school were blown up by a grenade they carried yesterday at a checkpoint, police said. Police in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir said they stopped three men for a routine check yesterday on a road near Dherkot, about 25 miles northeast of Murree, where masked gunmen killed six Pakistanis at a school for children of foreign Christian missionaries on Monday.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020806_007162,00.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1524529
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/07/international/asia/07STAN.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-paki7aug07.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dworld
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/219/nation/Bombing_suspects_kill_themselves+.shtml
http://www.washtimes.com/world/.htm
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/r.htm
* Pakistani police examining body
Islamabad -- Investigators said Wednesday they were examining the body of a man blown up by a grenade at a Pakistani police checkpoint, looking for details that might determine whether he was one of the gunmen who killed six people at a Christian school. A police photo of the man's body showed he was wearing blue pants and a white shirt, clothing similar to that worn by the assailants who burst through the gate of the Murree Christian School on Monday. The attackers killed six Pakistanis, including two security guards. None of the 150 students, including Americans, Australians, Europeans and New Zealanders, was injured before the attackers were driven off.
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-Christian-School.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-christian-school0807aug07.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug7.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/07/international0341EDT0474.DTL
http://www.herald-sun.com/firstnews/37-254132.html
* Christians in South Pakistan seek more security after attack
August 06, Karachi, Pakistan -- After a bloody attack on a missionary school in northern Pakistan , Christian leaders in the southern part of the country asked authorities Tuesday for more protection for churches and schools. The Christian delegation asked Sindh province officials to step up police security at churches and missionary schools, most of which are in the provincial capital of Karachi, said Michael Javed, one of the Christians and a former member of the provincial parliament.
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* New killings feed Kashmir angst
August 06, Nunwan, India -- A terrorist attack in Kashmir Tuesday raised new fears of hostilities between India and Pakistan , after suspected Islamic militants killed nine Hindus on a Himalayan pilgrimage. The assailants also wounded 27 pilgrims, police said. In New Delhi, I.D. Swamy, the junior home minister, said the government wondered if there was a Pakistani link. "There can be Pakistan's involvement since its policy was to disturb peace in Kashmir. There will be attempts to disturb elections (this fall) in Kashmir," Swamy said.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020806_009093-search,00.html
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-aug07.story
* Hindu groups call general strike in Kashmir to protest attack
Jammu, India -- Hindu groups called a general strike in Kashmir on Wednesday to protest the terrorist attack that killed nine pilgrims as they prepared to march to a Himalayan shrine. The strike shut down most shops and businesses in Jammu, the winter capital of India's northern Jammu-Kashmir state. Government offices and schoolsd in Jammu, but attendance was thin. There was no disruption of essential services in the city, police said.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020807_001431-search,00.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Kashmir-Attack.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-kashmir-attack0807aug07.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AAug7.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/07/international0510EDT0496.DTL
* Kashmir chief minister: Destroy rebel camps in Pakistan
Srinagar, India -- The chief minister of Indian Kashmir called for the destruction of guerrilla training camps, which New Delhi says are in Pakistan, after suspected Islamic militants killed nine Hindu pilgrims in the region. ``Destruction of training camps across the border is the only alternative to uproot terror,'' Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah said in a statement condemning Tuesday's attack on the pilgrims bound for a sacred shrine in the Himalayas.
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-kashmir-camps.html
* Pakistan election chief assures EU team of fair elections
Islamabad -- Pakistan's election oversight agency Wednesday assured a team of European Union observers that an October national ballot will be free and fair, government officials said. Election Commission of Pakistan chief Irshad Hassan Khan told the EU team that the agency will remain impartial and neutral and all political parties will get a fair chance in the Oct. 10 parliamentary contest, said officials.
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* Australian Foreign Minister says Australians should leave Pakistan
August 06, Canberra -- An attack on a Christian school in Pakistan was a deliberate strike against foreigners and Australians should leave the country, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Tuesday. Downer said the attack highlighted the fragile state of security in the South Asian nation. Six Pakistanis were killed and three people were wounded after masked gunman burst through the gates and fired at staff in the Murree Christian school, which is run by an Australian.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20020806_001168,00.html
* Body of slain Wall Street Journal correspondent transferred to Karachi airport for flight to U.S.
Karachi, Pakistan -- More than six months after his abduction, the body of slain Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl was taken Wednesday to Karachi's airport for a flight to the United States, Pakistani officials said. The body was transferred in an oak casket from a mortuary at the Edhi Foundation, a Pakistani relief organization, to the airport by police convoy, according to foundation official Rezwan Edhi. U.S. diplomats in Islamabad declined to give any details or say when Pearl's body would leave Karachi, citing the family's desire for privacy.
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/219/world/Body_of_slain_Wall_Street_Jour:.shtml
* Sri Lanka's main opposition party pledges to unseat government
August 06, Colombo -- The opposition Peoples' Alliance said Tuesday it was talking to other political groups about ways to unseat the new government. "We will take every legally constituted step to regain power...This is the most miserable and incompetent government since independence," Sarath Amunugama, a party spokesman, told reporters. Amunugama's comment came two days after state-run radio alleged that President Kumaratunga, who leads the Peoples' Alliance, was planning to fire Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
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* Nepal High Court rejects petition to reinstate parliament
August 06, Katmandu -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a petition by former lawmakers seeking to reinstate parliament, which was dissolved by the prime minister in May. "It is the unanimous decision of this bench of the Supreme Court to reject the petition," Chief Justice Kasha Parsed Upadhaya said in a packed courtroom. All 11 judges on the court concurred it was the prime minister's prerogative to dissolve parliament and such a decision couldn't be challenged in the court.
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Editorial/Op-Ed
* Colin Powell: leading without being bossy
Islamabad -- The job of U.S. secretary of state requires skating on ice - sometimes thin - and dodging diplomatic bullets - even if they later are found to be blanks. From this standpoint, could the United States do any better than Colin Powell? The former four-star general was on the road last week yet again. It was an eight-day, eight-country swing through much of South and Southeast Asia that he'll probably remember as one of his finer stretches in office. It started bumpily enough, though, in tension-filled South Asia, where India did not take kindly to his advice about "internationalizing" coming elections in disputed Kashmir and Jammu - and in Pakistan, which seemed irritated by the brevity of his visit there (five hours and on to Thailand).
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/134508038_plate07.html
* Don't back down: Pakistan government must control extremism
After another attack Monday on Americans in Pakistan, President Pervez Musharaff may believe he should not step in now to control extremism within his country. He may think that too much muscle would create even more attacks. We hope Mr. Musharaff resists that faulty reasoning. Sad to say, attacks may occur regardless over the short term. It is the long term upon which Pakistan should focus. In so doing, it has a chance to curb destructive fanaticism.
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http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/stories/080702dnedidontbackdown.8ccd4.html
* They war on children, and call it holy
Radical Islam revealed its murderous nature again this week when four gunmen attacked a Christian school in Murree, Pakistan. They slaughtered five school employees and a bystander - but failed to reach their main target: the school's children, who took refuge behind stout doors. That's right: Children! The Monday attack echoed the Punjab massacre last October, when 15 Pakistani Christians were butchered inside a church. And it was immediately followed by an assault that killed nine Hindu pilgrims in Indian Kashmir.
http://nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/54201.htm
* I'd like some pretzels, and this man arrested
While I was away, the airlines have apparently firmed up their policies about undesirables. A beloved singer from south India, along with her entourage, was kicked off a flight for laughing and pointing out the window before takeoff. In the same week, a quartet of musicians from Pakistan also got the boot. Airline officials would say only that "some passengers" felt unsafe riding in the same plane with the ousted performers.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/07/DD207520.DTL
* Lessons from Sri Lanka
Colombo -- It's often forgotten that while suicide bombing started in the Middle East, the people who perfected suicide as a weapon of war were the Tamil Tigers militia here in Sri Lanka, the island-state off the southern tip of India. In the last decade, Tamil suicide bombers, many of them women, killed some 1,500 people, including an Indian prime minister and a Sri Lankan president. And in a bizarre twist, the Tigers filmed many of their suicide bombings to show and motivate their troops. But since last December a cease-fire between the Tigers - who have been militating for a separate state for Sri Lanka's Tamil Hindu minority in the northeast - and the government, which is dominated by the Buddhist Sinhalese majority, has halted all suicide bombings.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/07/opinion/07FRIE.html
Business/Technology
* Pakistani Commerce Minister: Fresh trade talks with US in August or September
Karachi, Pakistan -- A sharp year-on-year jump in exports in July has set the pace for Pakistani goods sold abroad to cross the $10 billion mark in the fiscal year that began last month, Commerce Minister Razak Dawood told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday. Dawood confirmed that exports had risen 19.3% on year to $816 million in July, overshooting a monthly export growth target of 13.4%. The financial year 2002-03 target has been set at $10.4 billion.
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* Computer Associates Unit launches operations in India
August 06, Pleasanton, California -- ACCPAC International Inc., a unit of Computer Associates International Inc. (CA),d operations in Bangalore, India, and named Rajesh Ghosh chief executive of the new business. Information on Ghosh's previous experience wasn't immediately available, a company spokesman said. In a press release Tuesday, the company said the subsidiary, ACCPAC India Pvt. Ltd., will operate with a full complement of sales and technical staff experienced in serving small to mid-size businesses.
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